Mental Meanderings on Erev Shabbat

 

    I had the privilege this morning of taking a virtual tour of the amazingly beautiful Messianic Synagogue in Sri Lanka. If you'd like to take the tour too, here is the link to the video: 

https://youtu.be/VKq3kQtbXCM?si=M0y-0yWeSewObEux

    

    Yesterday was such a hot day and today I am grateful to HaShem for giving me a cloudy and cool day with a refreshing breeze. I am also grateful that the headache that started in the middle of the night for me has abated. I'm grateful for friends and sisters in this walk, even though they mostly live all over the world and I only see them on Zoom or WhatsApp. I'm grateful for my life today - that Abba has given me breath for another day and allowed my heart to continue beating for another day. This is how I know I still have a meaningful role to play in this world, even if I can't see it clearly just now.

    My grandson usually spends Erev Shabbat with me but this week he has gone with his dad to a neighbouring city, so it will be a very quiet one for me. There will be space to focus on teshuva. But I will miss him - he is such a life force!

    Shabbat services, teachings, and videos from Beit Shuvu in Harare, Zimbabwe are available to watch on this link:

https://www.youtube.com/@AhavatAmmiAfrica/featured

    Services and teachings - including Selichot videos for each day, Sunday to Friday - are also available on the main Ahavat Ammi YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@AhavatAmmi/streams

    Right now I am going to prepare my home for Shabbat and once that is done, I will enjoy the peace and beauty around me.

    Let us continue to lift the Name of Yeshua HaMashiach higher and higher as we do mitzvot and show kindness and charity to everyone whom He sends across our path.

    One of the Brit Chadashah readings for this week is from the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 13 verses 1-23. May we be the seed that fell on good soil, producing 30, 60, and 100 times that which was sown. The days are short and the world is getting darker as we await the imminent return of Yeshua to reign over us as King. Let us show Light and Love wherever the opportunity is presented to us.